Kenji whistled, his new physique was one he'd say was his ideal. A body packed with strong muscles, but not so much as to hinder his movements. Just a perfect balance, since he knew he would surely be thrown into the world of combat one way or another, this build of his, and the new power of KJ gave him a newfound confidence.
But of course, strength isn't everything, one shouldn't be too confident after only one success. Be humble, as they say. His days of scrolling through Hopecore and Motivational reels will surely help.
He picked up the Template card that was on the floor, words were written on it as he read.
[KJ Template 100% Synchronization. New Template Cooldown: 31:23:49]
"I see, so it's reusable. I gotta thank my Bruzza for that. I'm glad I'll be be able to have a steady source of power for my journey." He put the card back under the pillow as he laid down on the bed hugging his Frieza Plushie shouting racial slurs.
He powered up his phone and unlocked, the temptations of Instagram screamed at him. So he indulged, entering a new cycle of Doom Scrolling. As he indulged for hours to come, until his doom scrolling was interrupted by a notification from the phone.
[#1 BRUZZA]
[Check the Messenger App lil bro, it'll be interesting, trust.]
He read the message presumably sent by his bruzza the Man in Black, 'So I could still communicate with him? Nice.'
'The messenger app, huh.. Aight bet, if my senses haven't failed me yet then this is probably one of those Dimensional Chat Group things.' He closed off Instagram as he opened the messenger app, what met him was an animation of a wormhole of kaleidoscopic colors that bombarded his pitiful eyes at full brightness.
He felt like the Ash Baby as he was flashbanged to hell and back. The animation ended a few seconds later as his phone screen now showed a projection of a Chat Group.
[Doom Scroller has joined the chat.]
[Doom Scroller has been appointed Admin.]
He opened up the keyboard and typed in @, hoping to see anyone other than him but there wasn't any to his disappointment.
[Would the Admin like to sent out invitations to other potential group members? Y/N?]
He clicked the Yes option as he waited for the other members to join.
He waited, and waited, and waited...
"This is taking far too long, my attention span cannot take it anymore." His fingers instinctively closed the app and went back to Instagram as his impatience was pacified by the heavenly reels of Instagram.
He doom scrolled once again for what felt like a few minutes but has actually been 2 hours now.
He stopped on a particular reel as he felt it was pretty interesting.
It was a reel of a Korean dude giving motivational advice, saying that this reel be the last one for the day.
"Am I on that side of Instagram again? How the hell did my feed get this brick? I don't remember placing this." He lightly laughed as he scrolled once more, this time the reel was a MiSide Reel.
"This is the shit." He said as he watched the edit of Cappie with that pampapamparamparampam music. He was mesmerized, by Cappie, his one of many, but favorite waifu. None can combat her status as the leading waifu for Kenji, she was simply his ideal girl.
As he rewatched the reel multiples times he got several pings from messenger.
"Guess their here." He muttered as he closed Insta and went back to Messenger where the new members of the Chat Group finally arrived.
He read through the list of the newly added members.
[Elf Hag, has joined the chat.]
[Water Is Good, has joined the chat.]
[Zombie Regressor, has joined the chat.]
[Bone Daddy, has joined the chat.]
[Not A Bad Slime, has joined the chat.].
[Cools Gal With A Cap, has joined the chat.]
As Kenji read through the list of the newcomers he grew more excited as these were all fictional characters he once knew and loved.
"Let's see.. There's Frieren, And oh? My Man! If it isn't Llyod himself. This is gonna be fun, then there's Kim Zombie, another homie. And Ainz! Well well well, as well as Rimuru this sounds like a really solid group. And then there's..." He looked at the latest member of the group. A Cool Girl with a cap, a description he was very familiar with.
"God bless this shit, my dreams have come true. I can finally interact with Cappie, the Mita's and also maybe save Tiny Mita. God bless this shit indeed. This is simply magnificent." A single tear slid down his cheek as a smile was painted on his face
[Elf Hag: What a strange gremoire, I've never seen one of this kind before.]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): The group chat comes in any form depending on the user. I'll be the smartass and say that some of you are probably already familiar with this trope? A dimensional chat group.]
[Zombie Regressor: Well I am, sort of. This is one of those right? A novel troupe, I've read a lot of them when I was younger.]
"Hm, I thought he would be more cautious about this." Kenji muttered, he always saw Kim Gongja as a planning type, like Ainz for example.
[Bone Daddy: This troupe died out a hundred years ago, but yes I am quite familiar with these types of genres. My wife's brother used to be obsessed with these Fanfiction things.]
"Wife? Ainz has a wife?? I don't remember this." Kenji sat back up from his bed, obviously stunned.
[Doom Scroller (Admin): Bro has a wife, that's crazy.]
[Water Is Good: Go die, Normie.]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): Me and Llyod have something to agree on.]
[Water Is Good: I won't even ask how you know my name, most admins of DCG always know something. Hell I received a system myself, nothing can surprise me anymore.]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): You have a wife who's a queen in the future.]
[Water Is Good: WHAT?!!! Is she rich..?]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): She's the queen of kingdom dumbass, of course.]
[Water Is Good: Life is good.]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): The one lurking out there, please show yourself.]
[Cool Gal With A Cap: Ehe~ I got caught. Hello~]
[Water is Good: By the way, Admin... Are you a fanfiction protagonist by any chance?]
[Doom Scroller (Admin): [Sent A Gif]]
Kenji saw that both Rimuru and Frieren were offline. He presumed Rimuru hasn't awakened as a slime yet, or is going through a Harvest Festival. He didn't know but he knows he'll probably come around soon, meanwhile for Frieren.. he didn't know she probably fell asleep or is stuck in a mimic trap or something.
[Requirements Met, Members Joined 7/5.
The Chat Group will be going through an update and thus will be unavailable during it's update. Please introduce yourselves next time after the update.]
Kenji was forcefully kicked off the app as he sighed, 'I wanted to interact with them some more.' He'll get his chance after the update.
But for now, he had other matters to attend to.
Kenji stood at the foot of his bedroom door, taking a deep breathe he turned the knob and as he took two steps outside of his room he instinctively dodges a dozen tendril like drills that we're aiming to skewer him.
"Come on now, can't you just hug your lil old son?" He calmly asked the Cursed Spirit that was an grotesque amalgamation of his parents.
He knew he was going to get attacked once he stepped out of his room, he had after all just used Cursed Energy a few hours earlier. The Curse was bound to have detected it.
He continued to dodge the tendrils the Curse was continuously attack him with, his speed and reflexes, inherited from KJ enabled him to dodge attacks that were even several times faster than that of the speed of sound.
This Curse, that seemed to only be somewhere between grade 2 to grade 1 will not be able to hit him.
He slowly made his way towards the curse, his heart a little heavy from what he is gonna do, but knew he needed to do.
Now, he was only a feet away from the Curse, it's tendrils wanted to trap him, to pierce holes through him, to kill him. But they couldn't.
He winded up for a punch, the cursed energy present on his hand flowed with fluidity, neither violent nor filled with the intent to kill. It swayed like a somber breeze.
And then, he punched. It wasn't a strong punch, on the contrary it was like a playful punch you received from a sibling.
He did not want to kill them using rage, hatred, or fear. He wanted the two of his parents to pass away in peace.
He knew that the reason this curse formed was because they loved their Son a little too much, they wanted to stay with him a little while longer, maybe until he grew up just a bit more.
But it hurt Kenji seeing them suffer in this form, He knew they meant no harm. It was just the circumstances that were against him.
So he wants to help them, to be finally be at peace.
And so, the two loving parents of Kenji Joule, the previous soul of this body. Reunited with their son, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but a gentle crackle, of Black and Red.
———[Chapter End]———
A/N: 3 CHAPTERS A DAY RAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KEEP THEY COMING!!!
Anyway, opinions on this chapter? This might be my first time actually trying to create an emotional scene. For me it seems a little extra, like too many words were said. But I want to know what you guys think, for me I think I did great. Baby steps you know, I'm still adapting to the author lifestyle.
So go easy on me, I ain't the perfect author, I can't satisfy everyone. I just want to show my art to other people is all.
Also tell me if there are any errors in my fanfic and I'll try to fix them, I don't have a proofreader and is just doing this solo with a phone so I might make mistakes here and there.